What Makes Taal Volcano More Unique In The Philippines?

Did you know that Taal volcano is a volcano within a volcano?Folk stories has it that the whole Taal Lake surrounding the Taal Volcano island, is the crater of the original volcano itself and this was once a super volcano and one of the largest volcanoes in the world judging by the size of Taal Lake. That it was originally a huge volcano, which towered 18,000 feet up into the sky.

The fact is that Taal volcano is one of the smallest active volcanos in the world. It is about 70-km south of Manila on "volcano island" inside a lake called Taal Lake, or Lake Taal. The volcano itself has a lake of its own inside its crater which is called the “Crater Lake.”The volcano is famous for having an island in a lake on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Inside a lake, it was formed through one major eruption at the center of a lake, and since the lake itself is the crater of a prehistoric volcano, and within the lake, other eruptions have occurred producing more craters and micro-lakes.

Right in the center of the island is the main crater that holds a sulfuric lake may have medicinal properties. People do swim in it; some have even SCUBA diven in it. The Crater Lake can be accessed by going around the crater to the west side of the island.